The Fruits of America- "The Tyson Pear". Original Antique Fruit Print
by Hovey, Charles M
First edition
Price: $150.00
- Bookseller: Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 808
- Book condition: Fine
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Hovey and Co.,
- Place: Boston:
- Date published: 1852-56.
Book Description
Boston: Hovey and Co., 1852-56. First edition Fine A Fine Original Chromolithograph. Royal Octavo 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Includes original text. Inspired by national pride, and a desire to document the finest fruit cultivated on American soil, Charles Hovey's The Fruits of America is as fine as any 19th Century European Pomology (or collection of fruit). These rare prints, drawn from nature and printed by William Sharp and Son, are the very first and finest early American Chromolithographs of fruit, predating the Civil War. Utilizing up to 10 separate stones for the production of each plate, the quality of the image rivals any early color printing of the period, worldwide. Hovey, an astute nurseryman and a founding member of several horticultural societies throughout New England and the Midwest, developed the Hovey Strawberry, the popular cultivar responsible for the success of the mid-19th Century American Strawberry production. Included in William Reese's "Stamped with the National Character: 19th Century American Color Plate Books" (Grolier Club, 1999).
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